Dr Brieley Cutting is an Australian pianist, her playing described as “such a force!” (Tempo Rubato), “technically assured with excellent control of the keyboard” (Courier Mail), and as having “a myriad of different colours” (Auckland Scoop). She is known for bringing her trademark energy and refinement to a career encompassing solo and collaborative performance, pedagogy, event curation, arts promotion and practice-focused research. Brieley Cutting is a prize-winning soloist, accolades including becoming the National Keyboard Winner of the 2006 ABC Young Performers Awards and receiving Second Placing in the 2010 Kerikeri International Piano Competition in New Zealand. Other recognition includes receiving a 2014 Creative Sparks Award from the Brisbane City Council for her DeClassified Music Concert Series, and her multi-disciplinary show Electro Lieder was nominated for Best in Music at the 2023 Sydney Fringe Festival. Brieley is also a Fellow of the Winston Churchill Trust, and after completing postgraduate studies at the Queensland Conservatorium, Australian National Academy of Music and Royal College of Music in London, she completed her doctoral studies on scholarship at Griffith University. Brieley has performed extensively in Australia, as well as at international venues from London and Europe to New Zealand. She has regularly performed with leading Australian ensembles - including Ensemble Trivium, Australia Piano Quartet, Collusion, Topology and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players - and has appeared as concerto soloist with orchestras including the Melbourne Symphony, Adelaide Symphony, Queensland Symphony and the Nizchny-Novgorod Philharmonic. A piano teacher for over 20 years, Brieley has been Lecturer at the University of New England (Armidale NSW) and the Australian Institute of Music (Sydney), and been invited to be an adjudicator/examiner for institutions such as the Queensland Conservatorium and University of Queensland. Her piano teachers have included Pamela Page, Max Olding, Natasha Vlassenko, Oleg Stepanov, Rita Reichman and Timothy Young.